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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-03
Reunion of McGowaps Brigade.

EDITOR ANDERSON INTELLIGENcER
Pursuant to previous notice the survivors
of Companies &c" and "F," 18th S. c.
", met in the Court House in Wins
boro, S. c., on Saturday, Oct. go, 1887.
In the absence of the President, Capt.
J. A. Hinnant was requested to act as
Chairman, and 1t. J. R. Boyles as Sec.
retary.
The chairman explained the object of
the meeting to be in furtherance of a
call to try to effect reunion of the
survivors of McGowan's Brigade in the
late war, said Brigade being composed
of the 1st, 18th, 18th, 14th and Orr's
Rifle Regiments.
A letter was read from Col. Cad Jones
to the Survivors Association, suggesting
that this Association take the response.
bility of appointing two members from
each Regiment, to meet in Columbia,
S. c., on the 10th of November next, to
consult as to the adyisability of such
Brigade reunion, to determine when
and where it shall be held, whether we
shall have an orator, or supper, or not.
The Secretary read letter from Gen.
MCGOWAN to Col. Cad Jones, also en-
bodying the foregoing views. Neither
seem to favor The idea of having
general orator or set supper, but a gene.
raj meeting and "nauch good teeling."
MIR. ". A. Mcdowell offered the fol-
lowing, which was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, it appears to be a general
desire that reunion of the MCGOWAN
Brigade be had at Columbia, S. O., on
the 18th of December next, this being
the 25th anniversary of the fall Of
the gallant Gregg, first General of this
Resolved, That committee of two be
appointed from each Regiment of the
old Brigade to meet in Columbia on the
10th day November next, to determine
whether it is expedient to have such re-
union, when and where the same shall
be held, what order shall be taken, and
to make all proper arrangements for the
meeting thereof.
RESOLVED, That the following committee
be appointed
First Regiment-Col. Ed. McCrady
and Capt. James Armstrong.
Twelfth Regiment-Col. Cad Jones
and Col. T. F. Clyburn.
Thirteenth Regiment-Lieut. A. S.
Douglas and Lieut.. Caldwell.
Fourteenth Regiment-Col. Joseph N.
Brown and Col. Simpson.
Orr's Rifes-Col. Miller and Gen.
r. r. Hemphill.
Resolved, That as this Association has
not at present the means of obtaining
the names of the surviving ranking off.
GERS of the different Regiments, thatsuch
surviving officers consider themselves aa
members of said committee, and meet in
Columbia on the 10th November, and
that such surviving officers be authorized
to send alternates, provided they cannot
attend such meeting.
j. R. BOYLES, Sec.
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There is prosperous Masonic Lodge
here, A. F. NJ, and other societies. There
are over sixty places of business in the
city, conducted by live, wide-awake,
energetic and enterprising men. Within
the past few years number of splendid
brick buildings have gone up, of clay
made on the spot. It has full share Of
members at the bar, all of whom stand
honored in their profession. There is q
continued breeze here during the sum-
mer, and but few persons in the locality
have need to use mosquito nets.
Leno is pretty little town settled on
the banks of the beautiful Santafee River,
near the Natural Bridge, in the southern
portion of the County. Extensive saw,
grist and cotton seed oil mills, and GIN
ming of sea island cotton, merchandising,
&C., are largely conducted at this place,
by Col. G. NJ. Milestone & Son., gentle
men Of great energy. Col. Milestone is
postmaster, and Messrs. w. B. Vinzant
and j. Russell are Superintendents of the
mills, gins, &c. The population of this
little town number about 130, and of the
best society. We have two churches,
Baptist and Presbyterian. The surround.
ing County is rapidly developing into a
fine farming country.
Anderson County will ever hold q
warm place in my heart. 1 shall never
forget the many warm friends I have
parted with, and it is source of the
most sincere pleasure to receive news of
them weekly through the County paper.
Wishing the INTELL1eENcER much sue
cess, and bidding you all good bye for q
while, allow me to subscribe myself,
Yours truly, JESSE RUSSELL.
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a Very Strange Story About Gould.

New. YORK, October 29.--The 7sle-
gram to-day has an interview with Mr..
Gould in which that gentleman is quoted
as saying he will sail for Europe by the
Umbria TO- day if he can possibly get his
business in shape. The same paper
says A curious story is going around to
the effect that Mr.. Gould is particularly
anxious to leave the country at this time
and to be abroad, especially on the 18th
of November, the date upon which the
condemned Anarchists a1e to be hanged
in Chicago. There is no longer any
doubt that the execution will take place.
For this the Anarchists are said to hold
Mr.. Gould chiefly responsible. They
have fixed upon him as the man who, by
bold and liberal use of his enormous
money power, could stay the hand of
justice and prevent what they look on as
slaughter of martyrs. Absurd as the
notion is, they have not hesitated to
harp upon it boldly. At first Mr.. Gould
was approached in a neutral rather than
a threatening manner.
The reliance of the Anarchist Brother.
hood on his great power and upon his
exercise of it in their behalf was set
forth in mysterious communications
which he received sometimes by mail and
sometimes by the hand of messengers in
the streets. AS time passed and the case
became more desperate, the anonymous
messages became sharper in tone and of
a distinctly threatening character. After
this change of attitude the mails alone
were used. Latterly the warnings have
been of SO decided character and so
explicit in their terms that Gould, who
is naturally a man of timid disposition,
became thoroughly frightened and began
somewhat hasty preparations for long
continued pleasure trip to Europe. His
departure to-day is believed to be chiefly
due to an entire and natural willingness
to pass the day of the Anarchist execu-
tions somewhere remote from the reach
of any possibility of their insane p'' DO
ipgs.
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Letter from Florida.
LENo, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA,
Ootohor 0e 1897

LENO, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORlDA,
October 26, 1887.
Editor anderson LatelHgencer In ac.
cordance with my promise made to some
of my correspondents not long since, I
will give them and the many readers of
your valuable paper few items from
this County. Lake City is the County
seat, and is situated sixty miles West Of
Jacksonville, with Eve beautiful lakes in
its midst, and surrounded with as many
more, which are fed by springs of water.
These lakes abound with the finest of
fish, and afford splendid fishing grounds
for the angler. There are no vegetable
deposits exposed about these lakes at
any season of the year, hence are free
from all noxious effluvis; the water sur.
face being so great the health of the
place is remarkably good during the
dryest or hottest weather. In the vicinity
are numerous orange groves, many of
which are bearing, and many young
groves coming into bearing. The lands
are peculiarly adapted TO vegetable and
fruit crops. From sloo to $3.50 per acre
has been realized by parties from one
years production OF vegetable crops.
Lands are capable of yielding from ten
to fifty bushels of corn, and from three
to six hundred pounds of sea island cot.
ton per acre in this vicinity, without fer.
tilizers. It is fact we'll demonstrated
that family can make good support
on these lands, and grow an orange grove
at the same time. This can be done in
any part Of this County.
The fine thoroughbred Jersey COWS,
and full bred Berkshire hogs are. sue.
cessfully raised here. The farmers are
planting largely of the Bermuda grass,
which they say is the best grass for this
country, as it affords pasture both winter
aud summer, and is affected very little
by drouth, hot weather, &c. Lake City
is the commercial center for sea island
cotton, and is supplied from large ter.
ritory, and it has the very best educa-
tional facilities; the State Agricultural
students receive every attention that can
be given to facilitate their studies. 1t is
presided over by President A. L. Holli-
day. The science of agriculture, horti.
culture, &C., is thoroughly taught and
reduced to practice. Agricultural Chem
istry is an important feature of this
institution. The Peabody Institute is
one of the best conducted schools in the
State as common and preparatory
school, and is an important adjunct to
the State Agricultural College. Its pu'
pills from the County pay no tuition,
while those from beyond pay a mere
nominal tuition fee; there are in addi-
ton private schools. The colored peo'
pie have ample school facilities, and
their schools are conducted upon the
most improved system. There are six
churches-Baptist, Methodist, Presbyte.
riap, Episcopal, Catholic and Christ.
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The Editor is still in Charleston en-.
gagged as chairman of the Phosphate
Investigating Committee. The Com
mittee will probably conclude lis work
ina day or two. Their report will be
submitted to the coming session of the
Legislature.
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DEFENDING MACON.

Then he referred to the subject of the
rebel flags used in the Macon demonstra.
ton, and touchingly described the love
the people felt for these war.stained
banners and their desire to behold them
once more at their reunions. He held
that while there were about dozen of
them unfurled, there we're at last $4,000
national flags displayed, but that North
ern correspondents of the partisan press
were affected with color blindness and
could not see them.
In referring to the late war, the Gen.
eral said that at no time had the South
desired to destroy the Union. That she
had furnished too much of honor and
treasure and blood towards its formation
and building to wish it destroyed. That
the war was only the outgrowth of the
Southis construction of the Constitution,
which differed from that of the people of
the North. The sections he compared to
two boys, "Johnnie" and "Yank," who
fell out over matter that could not be
peaceably adjusted, and that "Johnnie'
having gotten the worst of the fight, had
been invited back by "Yank." That
invitation was accepted, and "Johnnie"
was back to stay.
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NOTICE OF SALE.

DY virtue of Deed Of Trust executed
ID to me by Thomas M. Bowlan, | will
sell at public auction, at Anderson Court
House, S. c., OIL
sALEsDAY, NOV. Z, 1857,
to the highest bidder, all that certain Tract
of Land, belonging to Thomas NJ. Bowlan,
situated in Broadway Township, con-
tanning 9G acres, more or less, and bound
cd by lands Of b. b. Brcazeale, Joshua
Holland, John P. Maddox and Robert l..
Campbell. ,.,
TERMs-IIalf cash, balance on credit
of twelve months, with interest from day
of sale at ten per cent per annuni, TO be
secured by mortgage on the premises.
JOHN A. PRUI'TT, Trustee.
Oct 13, 1887 ID
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VIM. Minter, of Chester county grew
fify.two pumpkins on one vine this year.
"A common saying among business
mon is current to the effect that it is easy
enough to get money, but very hard to
keep it. There is more truth in this than
appears at first sight.
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greatest danger to our Republic, and
closed with an exhortation to the people
of all sections to forget the passions of
the past and unite in common purpose
to promote the prosperity and exalt the
greatness of our country.
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THE BALLOT.

In temperance, fence law and other
questions of State interest, he said full
vote of both colored and white people
was cast without interference or restraint,
and that on the latter question the
colored men had always carried the State
against the financial interests of the
whites. The General spoke at some
length on the condition Of the colored
people of the South as compared with
that of the years following the war, when
they we're governed by the so.called
and showed statistics that
the colored people had increased in
wealth threcfold under Democratic rule;
that their educational facilities which
were paid for out of the taxes collected
from the whites had increased over
twenty fold, and that they were as peo'
pie, prosperous, contented and fully pro:
tected in all their rights. He condemned
very severely the course of certain North
ern Republicans in keeping alive the
feeling of sectional animosity, and
charged that in such course, lay the
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LET THE VERDICT STAND.

In substantiation of this be said that
the people of the South would not have
the verdict changed if they could. That
he had so expressed himself at the reun-
ions of Confederate soldiers and in other
places, and that he but echoed the senti-
ment of his countrymen. The light vote
of his State in the Presidential election
he explained by stating that the colored
people, finding they had been robbed by
the carpct.bag element after the war,
would no longer affiliate with the
Republican party in the Presidential
election, and the mass Of them, not caring
to vote with the Democracy, had simply
refrained from voting at all.
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TELLING 1T IN OHIO.
Governor Gordon and the Work he Is Do
ing.


CINCINNATI, ONO, Oct. 29.-1n his
speech here last night, Governor Cor
don, of Georgia, alluded to the reception
of Jeff. Davis, at Macon, as follows: 1t
is charged that we cheered jeff. Davis.
Does that mean going to war again 2 Let
us reason. Suppose we didn't. Suppose
we turned our backs on this paleiaced,
broken down old man? What did he do
that 1 haven't done? 1 don't think l
shot anybody, but I tried pretty hard.
You might ask me to turn cold shoulder
on the wife of my bosom. She went
with me to the front. She followed me
to camp, shared my dangers, even to the
picket, and at times in the danger of the
battle; and under Providence I owe to
her tender nursing that my life was
spared me. Why should 1 hate her? If
we should turn our backs on that man,
refuse him our sympathies, we should
merit the scorn Of every brave man in
this audience, and you would feel ap
absolute contempt for us.
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HERE STRANGER.
NOTICE OF SALE.

DY virtue of Deed of Trust executed
ID to me by NJ. Z. Pruitt. will sell at
public auction on Monday, November 7th,
1857, at Anderson, S. c., all that certain
Tract or parcel Of Land, containing 116
acres, more or less, situated on Bear Creek,
waters of Rocky River, adjoining lands of
John j. Robinson, Polly Moore, N. G.
Wright and d. r. Simmons.
Terms-One half cash, the balance on
credit of twelve months, with interest from
day of sale ut ten per cent per annum, to
be secured by mortgage on the premises.
G. L. HAMMOND,
Trustee.
Oot %, 1887 Is 3
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GORDON AS A KU-KLUX.

PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, Oct. ga
heavy storm of rain broke upon the city
to-day. The Democratic managers had
made arrangements to give Gov. Gordon
a hearty reception, and Notwithstanding
the incIement weather, a large audience
greeted him. The General upon being
introduced referred to the charge of
being "Ku.Klux," made by the
Republican press, and denied it fully,
asserting that he never at any time
belonged to any organization except one
formed for the maintainance of law and
order, and that he had not at any time
been member of any secret society. He
then spoke of the charges of sentimen-
talism made by the Commercial Gazette,
and acknowledged to the impeachment.
he argued that all men ac:uated by q
desire to promote their country's welfare
were sentimentalists. He then launched
out on his main address by the state
ment; first, that he would speak only of
questions affecting the people of both the
North and South and second, that he
desired to be questioned fully and freely
on any point upon which the audience
desired to be informed. He then spoke
of the reception of Jefferson Davis, justi.
flying it SIS in his speech at Cincinnati
last night.
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JEFF. DAVIS LONG AGO.

When JEFF. Davis left the United
States Senate, he left it rich with regret
and full of political honors. For our sakes
he became poor and debarred forever
from political honors in his own country.
He fingers to day with broken health
and scarcely place to lay his head,
dragging after him wounded limbs, with
increasing suffering that followed him
from Buena Vista. What would you
think of me if I said, "Go hence 1 have
no more use for you!" I am not going
to do it. I would have contempt for
General Meryon (who sat on the stage)
if he went back on the grand old name
of Abraham Lincoln. Put yourself in
the other fallnW,s nlace.
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SHOULD LOVE THE FLAGS.

l am going to show you that our chill
dren should love their old flags. A man
is better who has the nerve to do justice,
whatever it costs. Was there any honor
in carrying these old flags? They, too,
were woven by the patriotic hands of
Southern women. They were delivered
to husbands and brothers, consecrated by
tears and praise. Some were rent with
bullets, blackened with gunpowder and
Redeemed with the blood of the brave.
Don't we build monuments to the Con-
federate dead? Why, Gen. Grant, the
greatest General of the Union army, said
be was willing to share in the dedication
of monument to the Confederate dead.
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1t was my fortune few weeks ago in
Philadelphia to take part in the celebra-
tion of the adoption of the Constitution,
and when Georgia had taken her part I
was proud as I stood in the streets to see
the shattered remnants of the Union
army bearing the shattered remnants Of
the old flags, and as they were viewed by
that October light amid the shouts of
ten thousand throats, felt that I knew
what was pulsating in the veins of the
strong, the grand men, the remnants of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Why shouldn't 1? They were consecra-
ted to the cause which to those who
gathered around them was as Holy as
Honor and Truth. I would have no faith
in home and liberty if those men did not
love their old flags. So, too, we loved
ours. Let us get out of the universe,
when hatred of the South is called 10y
alty TO the North.
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You see in some of your papers col.
umn after column about rebel flags.
This is truth, was there. There were
in that great central city of Macon, Geor-
gia, q dozen Confederate flags and $4,000
Of the stars and stripes, and yet some
people are so color blind that they could
not see anything but rebel flags, and yet
the very carriage that bore Jefferson
Davis, and the horses that drew him,
were literally covered with Union flags.
The very house that he was in was GOV.
cred with them as to almost blind him.
Some speeches were made. A leader
was chosen to present the memento of
affection to his wife, and the great eli
max of it was that the Union was
rehabilitated on a frmer basis than ever.
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Beast Butler announces publicly
that he will vote the Democratic ticket
in Massachusetts, this year.
So A prominent physician Of. Dubuque
thinks the turned down kerosene lamp is
the prime and common cause Of dipth-
theria
The midland journal., 1887-11-18

great drouth, but its fae quality, per-
manence, thick sod, early growth in
spring and late growth in autumn make
it very valuable. No substitute of
equal value has been found for Timothy
as a grass for hay, but the yield per
acre and feeding value per ton is great
er if clover is grown with it. Grass
suffers more from drouth in cases where
the fields have been closely grazed early
in the season, than when fair growth
has been allowed to remain, serving as
slight shading to check evaporation
partly or fully counterbalancing the
increase ofevaporation from the leaves,
and certainly this better growth enables
the plant to more successfully resist
unfavorable conditions. Comparatively
early planting or sowing of plants de-
signed as fodder crops, such as corn or
millet, is safer should severe drouth
occur.
The midland journal., 1887-11-18
A Distinguished CIergyman's Testi-
mOny.

Rev. r. M. Pickens, President of the
Methodist Protestant Church of South
Carolina, writes from Greenville:
"About four years ago was attacked
with what the physicians pronounced
neuralgia rheumatism, accompanied with
erysipelas My appetite failed me entirely,
and l had an intermitting pulse and very
irregular pulsations of the heart. A ter
rible pain soon came into my chest and
shoulders, and became so helpless that
could attend to no business at all. The
pains were movable, and would sometimes
pass from one part of my body to another.
Finally the erysipelas broke out on my left
hand and arm, and produced much SWELL
ing. l was for eighteen months afflicted
in this way, and of course used great
many kinds of medicines, but nothing gave
me relief. Friends finally persuaded me
to try Swift's Specific / noticed decided
improvement while taking the first bottle.
Tcontinued its use until had taken about
one dozen bottles, when l found myself
sound and well again, with no sign of dis
ease left except stiffness in my hand,
result of the erysipelas. While taking
tie medicine gained on an average two
pounds of flesh per week. l think S. S. S.
valuable medicine, and l frequently
recommend it to my friends"
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